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MMM 259: Out of office

I’m at the customer site by the time you’ll read this, so my day is going to be less than pleasant, and I’m certain to be less present. I’m snapping this together quickly before I go do all my chores in preparation.

Starting the week off right with some sex cult/mobility exercises.

Something seems odd here.

Apple, Hello Kitty, Christian? Maybe she’s just a pisces.

I got a shoulder impingement doing these so high, I recommend stopping at face level.

Is this a repeat? It feels like a repeat.

Pretty hair.

Pretty smile.

Too many piercings.

Needed a higher speed on the exposure here.

Have a lovely Monday in America, a land still sane enough not to elect a cunt like Hillary.

It’s almost as if he is waiting for his sister to be here; I don’t want to make her feel guilty if she can’t bring herself to see him at the end. She’s already buried two husbands, and Jack is all the family she has left.

She is such a sweet lady. I’m tempted to call her, but I don’t want to cause her any undue pain.

As reported last night, Delta’s whole system was down, so I am home. I strongly suspect it was a deliberate attack. Delta had a power outage in August in Atlanta with the same effect, which told hackers where the weak point was.

Prayers for you and your friend this morning, Teresa, this can’t be easy.

Teresa, you’re amazing. If he’s off the ventilator and looks peaceful, it’s not a bad idea to tell her that, even if she still decides not to come. It’s harder to last remember someone all hooked up to that gear.

Cavill, if a power outage in ATL can shut it down globally, that says their system is built with a terrible weak point. For a hacker that wanted to strand people at airports during anti-Trump protests, that’s useful info.

Cavill, if a power outage in ATL can shut it down globally, that says their system is built with a terrible weak point. For a hacker that wanted to strand people at airports during anti-Trump protests, that’s useful info.

Yep. Plus airlines here in the US have been scrimping on so much you can practically assume all the airlines have these pressure points. I’d wager any of them could be crippled the same way if you knew where their equivalent was.

These are clearly fake news attempts at sowing discord. But still, ain’t it great? We had become accustomed to Govt moving at snails pace.
And along comes Trump and makes so much impact in first week, that by second week people are getting impatient that he hasn’t delivered everything he promised.

Caught part of Steve’s show with the guy talking about revitalizing the cities…not gonna happen until we can deal honestly with crime. As long as hands are tied because we can’t get past bullshit racial politics that protect the criminal class and drug abusers, there will be no revitalization.

I really needed to sleep longer, but had no option as I had to get the wife and daughter on the road. Too much Fight or Flight from being near that mob of malcontented monsters last night made for poor sleep.

I had to get Boy #1 from work at 9:00 last night and went right to bed after I got home. Rowan was in his crate and Paula working so I woke up at 0430 unprompted and couldn’t fall back asleep. When Rowan sleeps on the bed he has to leap up whenever he hears a sound to investigate. Then, when it turns out to be nothing, he leaps back on the bed and does that turning thing before falling asleep again. When I need sleep he’s crated.

The whole process involves sitting bolt upright, leaping off the bed and running full speed down the stairs with or without barking. The return is jumping on the bed, circling, hygiene sequence and then sleep

You would think that as a person of brown persuasion, I will oppose Trump’s plan to cut down on H1-B visas. You would be wrong.
I don’t want some third world darkies stealing muh job! I am an American!

Kidding aside, yes, there was a time there was a temporary shortage of high tech workers. But that shortage is over, and H1-B has become a tool to suppress wages. It has discouraged local born Americans from competing for these jobs. This needs to stop.

Hahaha TV show Fresh off the Boat catches heat for Korean actor having lead role as a Taiwanese character. The owner of our favorite Chinese restaurant went back to China and married a woman with a H1B. Her tech job in Cali made more money than his restaurant. He sold the restaurant and moved to Cali with his wife. Stay at home dad, now. New owners are Taiwanese. Americanized the menu 😢

MFM ridiculed DJT for eating KFC with a knife and fork. Made fun of the Pence family for eating at Red Lobster in NYC. Our current leadership has crappy flyover palates and should be shunned! Shunned!!! (Leon, had an allergic reaction to Popeye’s Spicy chicken. Don’t like their regular. H8 Church’s. Like the sides at KFC. Chicken is roid yuge and pink by the bone. Yummy salmonella)

Lauraw, former AA boss would make fried chicken for us on Thursday nights. Cornmeal/flour dredge. Good stuff. I grew up on dredged and stretched meat. Messican mom got schooled by Buckeye step-grandmom. I know poor folk food. Anglo and Messican. Fast food was luxury!!! Until it wasn’t.

I watched “The Martian” and “Interstellar” back to back yesterday, it was weird seeing Astronaut Matt Damon as Will Robinson and Dr. Smith in the same day. I’m interested in Leon’s opinion of how they handled “time” in Interstellar, it seemed really fucking stupid to me.

I read The Martian and mostly liked it, good hard SF. I won’t watch any movie with Matt Damon in it. Haven’t seen Interstellar, but I generally hate time travel in fiction. I’ve never seen it be internally consistent except in the cartoon series Gargoyles.

I’m only as neanderthal as most people with substantial German heritage. I’m an outlier on the planet, but my percentage of neanderthal DNA (3%) is common in the non-immigrant-overrun areas around der Schwarzwald. Some people have twice as much as I do.

Not really tired. “Snuggles Gorton” wants to snuggle. Visit with MiL last week was draining. She wants a day out. Last time Dan took her out to lunch, she freaked. We are in talks with staff about our lunch date. Dementia sucks

Sorry, been working on my Deutsch. I keep practicing my Espanol, but I’m at the end of the DuoLingo lessons and need to find some way to progress that doesn’t involve flirting with the messican lady at the greenhouse.

Mare’s Musings

February 18, 2018

I’ll tell you, I had to turn the Olympics off last night. The gay overload with the gay flags and gayness and the gay skier and the all about gay was too much for me. How does being gay have ANYTHING to do with skiing unless you’re purposefully landing on a pole?